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| − | The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is a professional scientific association of biomedical and health informatics professionals, also known as informaticians.
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| − | == History ==
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| − | AMIA was formed by the merger of three organizations in 1988:
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| − | *American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI)
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| − | *American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
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| − | *Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC)
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| − | For more than 35 years, members of AMIA and its honorific college, ACMI, have sponsored meetings, education, policy, and research programs. AMIA continues to gain influence as the authoritative voice in the growing field of informatics through the individual and collective efforts of its members, who continue to drive thought leadership, and research and practice in their respective disciplines.
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| − | '''Mission:'''
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| − | AMIA's mission is to
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| − | "Lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics."
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| − | The core functions of the society are to advance the science of informatics, promote the education of informatics, assure that health information technology is used most effectively to promote health and health care, advance the profession of informatics, and provide services to members such as networking and professional development. AMIA actively supports five different informatics domains:
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| − | *Translational Bioinformatics
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| − | *Clinical Research Informatics
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| − | *Clinical Informatics
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| − | *Consumer Health Informatics
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| − | *Public Health Informatics
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| − | '''Membership:'''
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| − | AMIA membership is open to individuals, institutions, and corporations. Members include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, clinicians, health information technology professionals, computer and information scientists, biomedical engineers, consultants and industry representatives, medical librarians, academic researchers and educators, and advanced students pursuing a career in clinical informatics or health information technology.
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| − | '''Meetings'''
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| − | '''Publications:'''
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| − | AMIA publishes a monthly periodical titled the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)[http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org]
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| − | JAMIA is AMIA's premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics. Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science, imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy. JAMIA's articles describe innovative informatics research and systems that help to advance biomedical science and to promote health. Case reports, perspectives and reviews also help readers stay connected with the most important informatics developments in implementation, policy and education.
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| − | 2014 Impact Factor: 3.504
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| − | '''References:'''
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| − | 1. American Medical Informatics Association Homepage. http://www.amia.org
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| − | 2. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org
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| − | 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Informatics_Association
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